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From: David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com>
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To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly)
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* Eyuck!  Although I'm not fond of Tom Christiansen, I refer you to his
* article ``C Shell Programming Considered Harmful.''  Look for it at

Sorry, I was just joking.  Before I switched to perl five years ago, 
I did lots of csh programming.  I'm much more comfortable in csh than 
sh, but I realize it's a very strange language.  

One of my aliases even won a egregeous-use-of-a-utility award at a 
previous Usenix.

Most folks don't know about :q quoting in csh.  That's why I put
the script in.

-Dave